50 mathematical ideas you really need to know /
"Who invented zero? Why 60 seconds in a minute? How big is infinity? Where do parallel lines meet? And can a butterfly's wings really cause a storm on the far side of the world? In 50 Mathematical Ideas You Really Need to Know, Professor Tony Crilly explains in 50 clear and concise essays...
| Основен автор: | Crilly, A. J. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
London :
Quercus,
2007.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
Book jacket |
Съдържание:
- Zero
- Number systems
- Fractions
- Squares and square roots
- [Greek symbol for pi]
- e
- Infinity
- Imaginary numbers
- Primes
- Perfect numbers
- Fibonacci numbers
- Golden rectangles
- Pascal's triangle
- Algebra
- Euclid's algorithm
- Logic
- Proof
- Sets
- Calculus
- Constructions
- Triangles
- Curves
- Topology
- Dimension
- Fractals
- Chaos
- The parallel postulate
- Discrete geometry
- Graphs
- The four-colour problem
- Probability
- Baye's theory
- The birthday problem
- Distributions
- The normal curve
- Connecting data
- Genetics
- Groups
- Matrices
- Codes
- Advanced counting
- Magic squares
- Latin squares
- Money mathematics
- The diet problem
- The travelling salesperson
- Game theory
- Relativity
- Fermat's last theorem
- The Riemann hypothesis.